Stephen CuUnjieng joins Evercore Partners from Macquarie

Boutique investment bank Evercore Partners has hired Stephen CuUnjieng who was last with Macquarie as a senior adviser.

CuUnjieng will be based in Asia and will focus on advising companies in the Asean region. At Macquarie he was most recently a vice-chairman with responsibility for the same region.

In March Evercore entered a strategic agreement with China-focused investment bank Citic Securities to launch a new firm, Citic Securities International Partners, which will focus on cross-border MA advisory deals between China and other international markets and investment management. The alliance with Citic followed a 2006 strategic alliance that Evercore struck with Japanese firm Mizuho Securities to provide joint advisory services for US-Japan...